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> He didn’t have any answer as to the fate of new bag holders he created with his tweet. That was irresponsible.

I have to say up front, I find this kind of attitude incredibly infantilizing and condescending.

Exactly how many "bag holders" did Chamath "create"? (Hint: Zero.) Obviously the "bag holders" are assuming the risks themselves, as is (absent any evidence to the contrary) Chamath. They're on a forum literally called "Wall Street BETS" (emphasis mine). If a millionaire announces he's playing the slots and subsequently wins the jackpot, is he "responsible" for everyone else who subsequently plays slots?

(He didn't make this argument as well as he could have, but Chamath himself points out that when Goldman or AIG played stupid games, everyone else was conscripted into being the "bag holders.")

Also, exactly how many people are we even saying Chamath influenced? How many people were undecided about making the GME trade and then said, "welp, Chamath is long so YOLOOOOO?" And how many of these people traded irresponsibly (e.g. overleveraged, invested their life savings)? I would bet the number is small, even negligible.

> His plan to make hedge funds disclose their positions daily as some kind of a solution to overleverage makes no sense whatsoever.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think he ever proposed this as some sort of affirmative plan. What I heard was him pointing out the asymmetry of which entities are required/voluntarily publish their positions. If hedge funds had done that, the 136% thing would never have happened for obvious reasons. I interpreted it more as a response to the interviewer's pearl clutching about the market having no "integrity" because a stock price deviated from the "fundamentals" for a time under some bizarre circumstances.

> And he’s delusional about research skills of WSB posters as compared to Wall Street analysts.

If you're correct, then you can easily show us your short positions contra WSB research/herd mentality/irrationality/<pejorative> and we can track how well you end up compared to WSB.
Apparently Facebook went from an effective tax rate of 25% in 2019 to 12% in 2020. How did they manage to do that? Or am I reading too much into this?
And see coverage on Ars [0] and NY Times [1]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/01/warp-speed-prime-dire...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/arts/science-fiction-dict...
Do you have a better source for the numbers here?
Scouts learn to start a fire in any weather - even cold rain. You split the log and use the dry wood inside for kindling. Wood takes a season to dry in the first place, and isn't going to get wet (inside) just because it's raining. FWIW
Another Canadian here with a similar experience— friends with dogs even pay for insurance because of the potential for frightfully expensive private surgeries down the road. Though I do wonder if there's a psychological thing there where dogs form stronger bonds and so people go to greater lengths for them, whereas other animals are easier to let go of if circumstances indicate that the time has come.

And yes, dental care is all over the map— it feels very much like what I imagine US healthcare to be, with co-pays and mystery charges and having to log into my insurance company's online portal to do stuff. The NDP made a bunch of noise in the last election about a national dental plan, though even that effort would only have covered family incomes up to CAD$90k [1], so it wasn't anything like the universal no-questions coverage we have for core healthcare.

1: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-dental-plan-fact-check-...
I'm not sure if I agree, that will take some time to consider.

However, a source for this "Later when asked about the Overton window, Lehman admitted that the purpose of the Overton window was to convince potential donors of the role of think tanks in public policy." seems necessary.
>This specific drug is actually $4.50 per tablet here and prescription only.

Yes. It is like someone told you a can Coca Cola Coke in US is $220, and their latest innovation is to give you the same for $20.

All while you are picking one up at a convenience Store in EU for $1 and you can get a pack of 8 in a large supermarket for $3.

As you walk out of the convenience Store while drinking your coke, you are left wondering what the hell is going on with people and the world across the pond.
https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/nacional/2021/01/22/em-21-dias-...

People are dying without oxygen in Manaus.
well, true, but people are still reporting very high amount of short positions.
That's significantly more than my doctor - who is part of a major hospital/healthcare network and works primarily with insured patients - charges out-of-pocket...

(I know this because they screwed up billing the insurance company and got denied, and tried to switch me to cash and bill me the higher amount instead. I love our healthcare system.)
Well the general discontent with the financial system stems, I believe, from it being perceived as mostly a walled garden in which professionals have built a complicated and highly self-referential system few control (Blackrock cough) that makes and keeps them disproportionately wealthy.

To anyone in the working population it must seem like an instrument designed to keep the pressure on and not serve general society or those providing actual tangible things of value to the market, like goods and (non-financial) services.

I actually tend to agree but it's pointless to battle the market's cold logic (which often does make sense to me from what little I know) or existing power structures.

Solutions/counterforces need to come from society and civil institutions. If those are weak, gotta fix that first and the market would depict a more equitable society without prejudice. It's the same old rich vs poor repainted with complicated terminology and systems, really.

Another thing to improve would be transparency and education about what's going on in finance like with personal accounts of people working there for instance, making it less of a stranger and showing some of its internal logic and the things it does well or not so much.
So, who is considering what alternatives? We are using GitLab only for git ui, as I put a stop to using it any deeper due to a questionable open-core model.
I've found that if an argument is worth making, somebody will find a way to make it politely. For people who genuinely wish to learn things, relevant facts will make their way to them.

And for people who genuinely don't want to learn things, they have no trouble rejecting true things regardless of how they are written. People in filter bubbles always have been exposed to the truth at least once; they simply reject it.

So I don't find any problems with blocking rude people. The author here wrote the Block button on Quora, and I use it vigorously. I would be unable to use the site otherwise, because it attracts a lot of very hostile people. It also has many smart people with a wide variety of perspectives, and they'll inform me when I'm missing something. All I lose out on is hostility.
Not looking at the results (I couldn't give a shit either way), the whole "publishers leaving the platform" was always just virtue signalling as opposed to an actual stance they took because they did so right in the middle of a pandemic when their ads' target market was mostly under lockdown staying home and concerned about their own financial position thus less likely to spend money.

As I wrote on another forum back in July 2020:

This “boycott” is just about brands saving money during these uncertain times (especially considering some of these businesses were not sustainable even in a good economic climate). If ethics were actually a concern to them they wouldn’t have given money to that toxic company in the first place.

It’s also an opportunity for silicon-valley scum to virtue-signal about how Black Lives “Matter” to them despite exploiting minorities (which often represent a sizable chunk of their contracted-out workforce) with low pay, bad working conditions, lack of benefits and significant efforts to classify them as contractors instead of employees (even when such legal battles would cost more than just providing those people the benefits they deserve).

Not naming any companies per-se, but I’m sure most of you will know which ones I’m talking about. :wink:

Regarding the boycott itself, even if we assume good faith (despite having more than enough proof not to), it will do little because ultimately it is not hurting the company they are targeting; as long as the majority of people stays on there it will stay successful. What they could do is not only abandon advertising on there but also use their brand power to make the company seem “not cool” and stop using it completely; big brands still have a significant presence on various social media networks (which are all guilty of promoting hate), use it as a customer service platform and enjoy the conveniences offered by the platforms such as social login. Stopping that would reduce the utility of the platform for their users and hurt the company they’re targeting much more than a short-term ad boycott.
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so you are arguing that many small insurers, with insurance not bound to employment, would create a healthy price-quality structure in us health care? akin to the german model?

i think that has some merit, but its hard for me to imagine that having the payer, be disconnected from the consumer can really create a stable market without heavy handed regulation.

i dont think insurance can really get you to an efficient market. health care is simply not a good where price and substitution apply as in many other markets. and rather than jumping through hoops to invent such a market lets agree that this an ethical part of social contract and manage it with the best technocratic solutions that our society can offer. E.G. NHS and NICE
Short interest is still over 100 after today’s close. Watch for the gamma squeeze on Friday.
Going forward, how do you effectively manage the risk of one of your positions becoming a meme?

Hide your position better. Put out fewer signals. Lobby to make trades secret.
I think the title/post is misleading. This isn't Miami's white paper. The city just uploaded a copy of Satoshi's original bitcoin white paper to their website along with some empty PR jargon.
Yeah, periodically I've puttered over to WSB and looked around. It's not a shining jewel of analysis on a normal day. Right, now it's a pure stampeding herd of FOMO with metaphorical taxi drivers giving stock tips. Which is pretty canonical bubble material.

I think some of the fundamental analysis on WSB is sound, but doesn't support the existing valuation. The "short squeeze" play is interesting, but I don't have access to the ticker and book to read the details on what is actually going on. It's stampede material.

Sure, I've got a little in AMC/GME, but even if we, ahem, "go to the moon", because, eh, why not, it's a fraction of a fraction of my net, why not pick up a few bucks on the side. =)

The vast bulk of my investments are perking along in Vanguard index mutuals and will not even notice GME.
Apple and Amazon are ridiculously profitable, highly diversified, corporate, fiscally stable and aren't a prism of the CEO's whims and machinations.

I wouldn't consider Tesla to have any of those characteristics.
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Sadly, those piling on are much more likely to have their shirts lost than the short sellers who will take a loss and move on. When it crashes, it will be the RobinHooders left holding the bag and many of them stand to lose a lot to make a point, possibly much more than they thought.

I'm not happy that Musk is getting in on this, egging on crowds to take risks that might have material risks on their lives. He stands to lose nothing.

Finally - nobody seems to be talking about 'Game Stop'. Their CEO/CFO in reality must be soiling their pants under this kind of stress, nobody wants to be the pinata.

If the kids want to be smart, they can act conscientiously and organize a fund to structure initiatives they deem worthy. But then they have to face the reality that 85% of most of business is fairly 'reality driven'.

Weirdly - the most rational thing for executives to do, at this very moment - is to sell all of their shares to the mob. 'Now you own it'.
I'd flip that and say you should only support http if your website absolutely requires it. Unless you absolutely can not avoid supporting old devices you should just redirect http to https.

The privacy of all users is more important than supporting the outdated browser on an ereader.
If I understand gus_massa's comment correctly, then he's right. These are posts by YC startups directly, who choose to link to WaaS as the place people can read more about what they're hiring for. Other startups choose to link to other sites or post their own text. It's up to them.

YC startups getting to post job ads is one of the things that HN gives back to YC in exchange for funding it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. There shouldn't ever be more than one on the front page at a time.

Btw, Launch HNs (https://news.ycombinator.com/launches) are another thing HN gives back to YC, because they get placed on the front page. I try to keep those to 1 a day but as W21 Demo Day approaches you'll probably see a few days with 2 at the same time. I spend a lot of time helping startups with their text in the hope of keeping them interesting for the community—on balance I think they've added quite a bit to HN too.

If you still have questions, let me know!
Facebook EPS beats by $0.68, beats on revenue

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3655153-facebook-eps-beats-0_6...
You got balls, yes the IVOL is insane and that's a nice premium, but if for some reason you have a repeat of today, you're out $20K plus. This thing will crater, yeah, but shorting it is insane and option volatility is ridiculous right now.
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He's already hit the market cap goal for the 12th milestone. It's the EBITDA goal that's holding him back from collecting all of them.
> you selectively quoted a part that makes it sound like Popper is fine not tolerating any intolerance

I copied and pasted the entirety of the top section of Wikipedia with no editing. That section says "if a society is tolerant without limit" (my emphasis) which goes to your point that there is a threshold here.
> So Mac sales are up from 2019Q4 by $1B.

Technically, up $1.7B from that quarter, but why are you comparing 2021Q1 with 2019Q4?

2021 Q1 $8.675B

2020 Q4 $9.032B

2020 Q1 $7.160B

2019 Q4 $6.991B

Clearly the uptick in Mac sales is due to the pandemic and work from home, because 2020 Q4 was prior to the release of M1 Macs, and Mac sales had been flat for several years prior.

It's difficult to determine the effect of M1 Macs on the last quarter sales, because they weren't available until mid-November and were also very supply-constrained.
Might just be that hn comments aren’t representative of the wider population.
Class solidarity is non-existent in the US. Racial issues are much more visible. Poverty tends to be chronic and society to this day attempts to dismiss it as laziness or personal failure on the part of the individual, there isn't really anywhere for a flashpoint to happen. Incidents like George Floyd's murder act as a nexus around which debate, protests, and change can form.
If you know which repo it is, open an issue. It is indeed unexpected for them to be using AMP
It's so sad to see how these people had to go through the migration process twice. It was hard for them to enter a foreign country and to start a new life; I cannot imagine returning and leaving everything they achieved behind.
Let's see what happens with this new government.
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Greenspunned?
The company sounds predatory.

A lot of countries have much better health systems, with people fully insured (this is really designed for people who are underinsured), with significantly better outcomes, than the US. The US lifespan is also significantly trailing compared to other developed countries, and we are not a “normal” country at all. It’s going to be more appalling by 2040.

Anyways, the place to study this data and information is https://www.HealthData.org

You can spend hundreds of hours studying the data on that website, along with extreme specifics about medical care. I used it to inform my decision of where to live in Europe with rare immune mediated neurological diseases and type 1 diabetes.
With DNS over HTTPS and encrypted SNI, soon the only information you will get is "They accessed a website on amazon/cloudflair"
Just because I love torturing an analogy until I can get it to confess all its sins...

It's most like a theater having a squad of firefighters on hand, who most people ignore, as the theater has told them that the usher will let them know if a fire gets out of hand. One day the usher sees all the firefighters freaking out and quietly running for the exit, and his response is to flee for the exit himself and leave everyone remaining to fend for themselves.

I do get the moral complexities here, but the takeaway for us plebs in the audience is to not trust the usher to look out for our lives.
This conversion doesn't actually make any technical sense. Yes, you can calculate the field of view, but the depth of field, the angles of sight lines etc. are that of a 35mm lens.

For an intuitive way to visualize this: look at a few dolly zooms and think about what you are seeing in terms of geometry.
Hacker News has admitted longs pumping this company while accusing others of being "short sellers". Happens every quarter, is normal.
https://blog.logrocket.com/rust-compression-libraries/

Although implementations arein rust, I assume the provided benchmarks are representative of any optimised implementation...

Many compressor algorithms are compared on several data sets.

The results tables show compressed size, compression and decompression times for a number of normal and pathological cases.

Get a good feel about strengths and weaknesses.

Some algs really go downhill in pathological cases, such as with random data.

Do consider encryption too though you probably want to do that on the compressed data set where possible.

Sometimes external encryption means you will be stuck with something close to pathological...
> It sounds like the first peak managed to infect 75% of the population? If so, a second, similar, peak, at 1% case-fatality-rate is likely to case 20,000 deaths in the city alone.

1) There's no way of knowing what percentage of the population has been infected.

2) You're assuming that this strain can re-infect the same people, which is speculation.

3) You're assuming that this strain will be just as fatal as the original strain after re-infection, which is speculation.
I used to think this, but after really trying to assess the difference in some examples I made myself, I was converted.

Have you seriously tried yourself to read two identical blocks of text, one at full screen width (I tested 100% zoom Wikipedia on a 1440p, 27" screen at standard DPI) and one at a width of about 55 characters on the same screen? Have a go.

I find it easier to locate the next line after finishing one, which gives me a quicker reading speed.
Ironically, the US Employer-Oriented health insurance also exists in large part because of the US response to WW2.

During the war the US froze wages in order to try and prevent skyrocketing salaries due to the extreme demand for labor.

To compete, most employers started offering generous benefit packages in lieu of the raises they were no longer able to offer.

After the war, the larger employers found that the generous benefit packages were more cost-effective at retaining employees compared to higher pay, so they became "fans" if you will, and have supported the employer-based benefit programs in the US ever since.

One concise reference: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-th...
It's worth noting that these funds blowing up causes large sell-offs of their other holdings, which can in turn cause prices of those assets to fall. Falling prices can cause more sell-offs, and can spiral. Nobody really knows what's going to happen as a result of this since it's pretty unprecedented. IIRC the SPX is down ~3% and VIX is up 60% today.
This is just such a weird centrist point to make. Is there any substance to what you're saying other than "there's good and bad in everything"?
You also need to subtract the value those 8 people could create if they worked on something else.
Tell that to the guy up $31 million.
Where do you propose to get a copy of WordStar in 2020, pray tell?
> In the same way that a 401k is set up for a specific purpose, IKEA's foundation was also set up for a very specific purpose. If anything, the purpose was criticized as being overly narrow, and they recently updated it to be more broad.

Non-profit taxation laws were not set up with the intent of allowing for profit businesses to avoid taxation. That doesn't mean that it wasn't the outcome.

> Edit - To put it another way, there don't seem to be laws restricting investment firms from buying controlling interests in companies to manipulate asset prices/consumer behavior, which to me is far more detrimental than someone who may be pathologically frugal deciding they want to minimize taxes by setting up a complicated corporate structure with a foundation.

The existence of a worse scenario doesn't prevent us dealing with the current one.
It's not "hate", most people don't know and don't care. They want things that "just work". And, for many people, Apple's devices do that.
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